k401kR Documentation

k401k

Description

Wooldridge Source: L.E. Papke (1995), “Participation in and Contributions to 401(k) Pension Plans:Evidence from Plan Data,” Journal of Human Resources 30, 311-325. Professor Papke kindly provided these data. She gathered them from the Internal Revenue Service’s Form 5500 tapes. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('k401k')

Format

A data.frame with 1534 observations on 8 variables:

Notes

This data set is used in a variety of ways in the text. One additional possibility is to investigate whether the coefficients from the regression of prate on mrate, log(totemp) differ by whether the plan is a sole plan. The Chow test (see Section 7.4), and the less restrictive version that allows different intercepts, can be used.

Used in Text: pages 63, 79, 136, 174, 219, 692

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(k401k)